a think I haven't seen much discussed is the effect of the collapse of wages in journalism discouraging anyone even remotely competent from becoming a journalist
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and it's a shame. journalism historically was often workaday yes. but you also had genuinely brilliant writers flexing their craft. New Journalism was real! it was not imaginary! and other journalists saw these stars writing and even if they did not reach that bar, they saw it
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Someone on clubhouse today said journalists now are mostly “the failed children of elites who couldn’t make it to Google or Goldman”

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Is this also true of science academia?
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Not necessarily. You have to be competent to get into science academia.
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